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Man recalls possible encounter at a family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside Salt Lake City
In August 1964 two teenagers were walking back to a family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon after dark when they heard footsteps matching their movements and a low unearthly growl. They ran through a gully to the cabin and locked themselves inside. They then heard the nearby outhouse door open and slam, saw nothing when they turned on an outside light, later heard the door fling open with crashing in brush, and spent the night upstairs.
Coon hunters observe large, hairy "monkey" in pin oak
Late at night in 1963, the witness and four companions were hunting raccoons with dogs in a creek bottom south of Tyler, Texas. After the dogs treed something, the group illuminated a large reddish-furred animal in a pin oak that was howling and screaming while waving its arms and shaking limbs. After someone fired at it with a .22, it growled and the group fled with the dogs back to their vehicles.
Man recalls multi-witness sighting in teen years near Manistique
Six youths walking along railroad tracks heard a loud guttural sound behind them and turned to see a tall hair-covered figure. The figure walked steadily across the tracks and down into swampy woods about 110 feet away without stopping. The group later went to where it entered the woods, noticed a strong rotten odor but found no tracks.
Personal encounter of a camper as well as a history of encounters concerning his family members, dating back 40 years.
The witness and a companion were sleeping in a tent on a hill while camping. In the early morning hours the witness was awakened by a deep growling grunt very close to the tent, followed by brush sounds as something moved away. In the morning the witness searched for tracks, fur, or other sign but found nothing, and concluded the sounds had been made by a bigfoot.
One audible and two visual, early evening encounters by a coastal witness near the North Fork of the Coquille River
When the witness was a child living in a remote wooded valley, pounding on wood drew a sibling indoors and the family went outside to listen. From the driveway they heard loud guttural roaring together with continued pounding for several minutes on a clear calm evening. The sounds eventually stopped and the family went back inside, leaving the witness frightened.
Scream near Fort Coulonge, Quebec
Other seasonal and year-round residents heard similar loud unidentified howls, screams and roars at separate times over a ten-month period around the same cottages.
Scream near Markdale, Ontario
The witness's father reported hearing strange screams or growls in the woods near the pond when he was a child with companions.
Possible stalking and rock throwing in the Fraser Valley
Three companions walking back from swimming along a forestry road felt watched and heard snapping branches and rustling paralleling their movement. When they shouted and threw rocks toward the roadside bushes, rocks were thrown back at them while growling sounds were heard and the accompanying dog barked. Frightened, they ran to a nearby activity centre and later told a parent, who suggested a bear.
Audio recording of possible screams, growls, and fight with a dog from the Late 70's near Prosperity
On a fall evening just before dusk, the witness, then a child, and the father were at their farm when the father heard a loud disturbance in a wooded valley below a field. The father took a tape recorder and walked toward the sounds of a loud growling/roaring creature apparently fighting a neighbor's dog while the child waited uphill by a feed trough. The creature was never seen because it was too dark in the woods, and the father returned uphill. The neighbor's dog was never seen again.
Growl near Jessup Twnshp., Pennsylvania
About a month earlier the witness heard a low guttural growl outside the home while near the bathroom, which frightened her and drew her dog to sniff at a door.
Hunter has unusual experience while spring turkey hunting
The witness was scouting for turkeys in spring on the southern side of Jacks Mountain when turkey-like clucking from dense brush drew him closer. Each time he approached, a very low guttural growl came from the brush where nothing could be seen, stopping when he backed away while the clucking resumed. After two or three such approaches he left the area.
Loud scream heard by three witnesses.
Three bow hunters met in a field after dark while walking out. From a small woodlot about 70 yards away they twice heard a loud scream turning into a guttural growl with heavy breathing. One hunter briefly ran then returned, and the group left quickly after shining a weak light toward the sound without seeing anything.
Two brothers investigate strange whistling, hear growling
Over several summers the household repeatedly heard a loud high rising whistle in the early morning from the same wooded spot near home. In the third summer the witness and a relative walked toward the sound with baseball bats and got within about 25 yards. While the whistle continued they heard a wet growling sound at the same time and fled. The whistling was heard only once the next year and then stopped.
Howl near Sanford VA 23426 Is Where This Happened, Virginia
A few nights later the witness's wife, alone in the same trailer, heard two or three similar scream-howl voices for about five minutes that ended with guttural growling as town dogs began barking.
Scream near Cairo, West Virginia
A relative visiting the church on a Saturday evening after dark heard a scream and growl near the door and fled to a vehicle.
Growl near Milton, West Virginia
Over the years the household heard unidentified loud growls while hiking and screams and growls at night.
Hunters hear vocalization in a hollow off Route 2, near Lesage
The witness and two companions were coon hunting at night in a hollow when their dogs became frightened and refused to lead. From 80 to 100 yards ahead they heard an extremely loud 6- to 7-second bellow-roar rising to high-pitched cries, then later a low 5-second growl from about 50 yards and a second shorter high-pitched scream after reaching the ridge top. They never saw the source and returned home without further incident.
Growl near Wellsburg, West Virginia
A couple years later the witness and a companion walking in the same mine area heard brush move, a grunt and a growl and left quickly.
Growl near Newcomerstown, Ohio
A relative working in a building heard the same growl.
Growl near Newcomerstown, Ohio
Relatives in a garden heard a growl similar to one previously heard.